A way to get the firebase-tools version from package.json instead of firebaseToolsVersion

[richardkazuomiller]

The use case you're trying to solve

I'm trying to make sure that the version of firebase-tools used is the same as what is in my package.json. latest will probably be fine most of the time but there might be issues later.

Change to the action that would solve that use case

Add an option to read the version of firebase-tools version from package.json instead of requiring firebaseToolsVersion be set separately.

Other considerations

Maybe I could use some other tooling to sync up my package.json with firebaseToolsVersion but it would be nicer if action-hosting-deploy could do it on its own.

[richardkazuomiller]

It's been a week without a response and coincidentally there was a major update to firebase-tools ,so I'll just share that I was able to do this by myself by adding a step to my workflow that parses the package.json file and puts it in a variable that can be used in the subsequent deploy step. I would recommend others do that to avoid unexpected breaking changes in the future. Although it's not absolutely necessary functionality, I think loading the locally installed version is what is normally expected so I hope this issue can be left open and addressed at some point.